Piergiorgio Milano

Pesadilla

The protagonist in Pesadilla (Nightmare) is a man who has become lost in his dreams, constantly failing in his attempts to stay awake.

At the intersection between burlesque and the bizarre, Pesadilla marries black humour and melancholy by relating the fragility of a man divided between dreaming with his eyes open and living with his eyes closed. Pesadilla is a chair, a whip, a pair of men’s shoes, a shirt, a tie, a dog mask, an old screen from the 70s, an imaginary audience, a bus that never arrives, a gun, high heels, desire, flamenco, a panda…